Identifier: charlestonplacep00rav (find matches)
Title: Charleston, the place and the people, by Mrs. St. Julien Ravenel. With illustrations by Vernon Howe Bailey
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Ravenel, Harriott Horry, 1832-1912
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Publisher: New York, Macmillan
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
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the cinnamon, the York and Lancaster, thelittle white musk, and the sweet or Damascus. Theglossy-leaved Cherokee clothed the walls with its greatwhite disks, and was crowded by jasmine and honeysuckle.The lots were so large, often a square, or a half square,that the yard, stables, and servants quarters were quiteseparate from these pleasant places, where according tothe fashion of the time there were arbours, in which thegentlemen smoked their pipes, and the ladies took their dish of tea of an afternoon. Captain Basil Hall, who came a few years later, calls thehouses the villas of the wealthy planters, almost hid inthe rich foliage, and speaks of the light oriental styleof building, the gorgeous shrubs and flowers, and thetropical aspect of the city. So renewed and beautified, the little town thought her-self well prepared to receive the visit of President Wash-ington, when the Father of his People proposed hisSouthern tour in 1791. Travelling then was a matter of preparation and ar-
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353 354 CHARLESTON rangement, and Washington, who had a high opinion ofwhat was due his position, was not the man to neglectany detail of equipage. The President came in his travelling chariot with fourhorses and outriders. His favourite horse was led behindthat he might change the exercise occasionally. His lug-gage followed in another vehicle, and all the servants werehandsomely liveried. As he advanced the people throngedto see him pass, and the gentry of each neighbourhoodmounted and escorted him to the next stopping place. When the cortege reached the Waccamaw River, itstopped for the night at Colonel William Alstons planta-tion, Clifton. Colonel Alston was one of the largest riceplanters in the State and considered a model one. Hewas an old soldier, having been an officer of Marions andhad lately married as his second wife the beautiful MaryMotte, youngest daughter of Rebecca Motte of Revo-lutionary fame. She had been a little girl when she waslocked up in the garret during Rawd

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